Improving Students’ Productive Skills through Edmodo Site In Grade XIA at SMA N 2 Yogyakarta in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

This study was aimed at improving students’ productive skill by using Edmodo site for the eighth grade students at SMAN 2 Yogyakarta in te academic year of 2015 / 2016. This research was classroom action research which consisted of three cycles with three meetings in each cycle. The subjects of this research were students of class XI which consisted of 32 students. The data collection techniques were observations, interviews, and tests. The data were in the form of qualitative data and quantitative data. The qualitative data were obtained from the fields’ note and interview transcripts. These data were analyzed by comparing the mean scores of the pre – test and the post – test. The students’ mean score increased from 70,5 to 74,25 in speaking skill and 61,25 to 62,25 in writing skill. The results of this research show that the use of the Edmodo site as the media in teaching productive skills could improve the students’ motivation, score, and classroom interactive, the students could build their cooperation and improve their interaction by online learning. The uses of Edmodo site could facilitate the students to understand the material that had been taught in the classroom. Furthermore, the improvement of the teaching of productive skills gave impact to the students’ achievement. From the data above, it can be concluded that the use of Edmodo site as the media can improve the teaching in productive skill.